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Nasality in Taiwanese.

Ho-Hsien Pan1

  • 1Department of Foreign Languages and Literature, National Chiao Tung University, Hsinchu 30050, Taiwan. hhpan@cc.nctu.edu.tw

Language and Speech
|February 9, 2005
PubMed
Summary

Taiwanese speakers perceive voiced stops and nasal stops similarly, focusing on vowel nasality. This phonemic analysis clarifies Taiwanese nasality rules and production-perception links.

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Area of Science:

  • Phonetics
  • Linguistics
  • Psycholinguistics

Background:

  • Taiwanese phonology features complex nasality rules.
  • The distinction between oral and nasal phonemes in Taiwanese is debated.
  • Understanding allophonic rules is key to phonemic inventory analysis.

Purpose of the Study:

  • Investigate Taiwanese phonemic inventory and allophonic rules.
  • Examine perception and production of voiced stops, nasal stops, and vowels.
  • Clarify the controversial nasality issue in Taiwanese.

Main Methods:

  • Conducted four experiments: concept formation, gating, and two nasal airflow studies.
  • Analyzed perceptual and articulatory data.
  • Examined listener categorization and phonetic cue utilization.

Main Results:

  • Initial voiced stops are nasalized before nasal consonants across word boundaries.
  • Listeners group homorganic voiced stops and nasal stops into one category.
  • Vowel nasality, not stop type, is the primary cue for oral/nasal syllable identification.

Conclusions:

  • Taiwanese speakers prioritize vowel nasality over stop manner for syllable distinction.
  • Phonetic evidence supports a specific interpretation of Taiwanese nasality.
  • A connection exists between phonetic perception and the application of allophonic rules in production.

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